• Report of the conference(95 KB)
• Biographies speakers(347 KB)
  
  

Day 1 – 26 January 2011

• Welcome and Introduction(97 KB)
  Paola TESTORI COGGI
  Director General for Health and Consumers, European Commission
  
  
• Current US Approach to Regulatory Review and Risk Analysis
  Dr. Michael FITZPATRICK
  Associate Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, US Office of Management and Budget
  
  
  • Factsheet: Regulatory Strategy(81 KB)
  • Executive order - Improving regulation and regulatory review(16 KB)
  • Memorandum - Scientific integrity(478 KB)
  • Wall Street Journal - Toward a 21st-Century Regulatory System
    
    
• Risk Governance in the European Union: The role of Science, technology and civil society(2 MB)
  Dr. Charles KLEIBER
  Former State Secretary for Education and Research, Swiss Federal Department of Home Affairs, Switzerland and Chairman of the Board of the International Risk Governance Council (IRGC)
  
  
• Background, Themes and Organisation(122 KB)
  Bernardo DELOGU
  Head of Unit, Directorate General Health and Consumers, European Commission
  
  

• The Future of Risk Analysis: Meeting the Challenges(309 KB)
  Hans H. YU
  Director Science and Policy Directorate, Health Canada
  
  
• Risk Governance: A new concept for coping with complex technological risks(961 KB)
  Prof. Ortwin RENN
  Professor of Environmental Sociology and Technology Assessment, University of Stuttgart, International Risk Governance Council
  
  
• Improving the Utility of Risk Assessment(344 KB)
  Prof. George GRAY
  George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and Director of the Centre for Risk Science and Public Health
  
  
• The Future of Risk Analysis - Risk Management and the benefits side of the risk equation(291 KB)
  Mr. Dirk HUDIG
  European Risk Forum, Brussels, Belgium
  
  
• The Need for New Risk Assessment Approaches: the Case of Biological Risks(791 KB)
  Prof. Geoffrey SMITH
  Chair of the Royal Society Advisory Committee on the Scientific Aspects of International Security
  
  

• Improving Risk Assessment Approaches and Ensuring Consistency in Risk Assessment(476 KB)
  Prof. Thomas BURKE
  John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Chair of the US National Academy of Sciences Committee on Improving Risk Analysis
  
  
• Risk Assessment to Risk Management- Terminology of Risk Assessment: An Introduction or The Terminology of Harmoni[s][z]ation(434 KB)
  Dr. Margaret HARTLEY
  CEO Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering and Chair of the Steering Group "Harmonisation Project" International Programme of Chemical Safety (WHO)
  
  
• Risk Assessment to Risk Management – Terminology of Risk Assessment. EFSA Project on Risk Assessment Terminology(2 MB)
  Prof. Tony HARDY
  Chair of the Plant Protection Panel, European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
  
  
• Treatment and expression of uncertainty in risk assessment: Introduction to the issue(517 KB)
  Prof. Gérard LASFARGUES
  Directeur général adjoint scientifique, Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail (ANSES), France
  
  
• Treatment and expression of uncertainties in risk assessment: Presentation of the collaborative project(306 KB)
  Dr. Andy HART
  Plant Protection Panel, European Food Safety Authority, The Food and Environment Research Agency, FERA United Kingdom
  
  
• Exposure Assessment: Introduction to the Collaborative Project(127 KB)
  Prof. Helmut GREIM
  Chair European Commission Scientific Committee on Health and Environmental Risks (SCHER)
  
  
• Collaborative Project on Exposure Assessment(2 MB)
  Dr. Haluk OZKAYNAK
  Senior Scientist, Office of Research and Development, National Exposure Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  
  
• Improving the Risk Assessment process – Meeting the needs of Risk managers(163 KB)
  Prof. Peter CALOW
  Vice Chair of the European Commission Scientific Committee on Health and Environmental Risks (SCHER)
  
  

Day 2 - 27 January 2011

• Briefing and discussion points(66 KB)
  
  
• Risk Assessment Terminology(294 KB)
  Dr. Peter CHAN
  Director General, Health Evaluation Directorate Pesticides and Pest Management (PMRA), Health Canada
  
  

• Briefing and discussion points(73 KB)
  
  
• DRAFT Chemical X Case Study – Application of Uncertainty Framework (645 KB)
  
  

• Briefing and discussion points(82 KB)
  
  
• Plans for the Exposure Breakout Session(269 KB)
  
  
• Biomonitoring EU-US-CDN(93 KB)
  
  

• Briefing and discussion points(83 KB)
  
  
• The weighing of scientific evidence: Approach of the SCENIHR(137 KB)
  Prof Jim Bridges
  Chair of the EU Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks (SCENIHR)
  
  
• Summary of the SCENIHR Weight of Evidence methodology(120 KB)
  
  

• Briefing and discussion points(85 KB)
  
  
• Thought Starter Combined Exposures to Multiple Chemicals(865 KB)
  M.E. (Bette) Meek
  Associate Director, Chemical Risk Assessment, McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, University of Ottawa
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  A. Kortenkamp
  Head of Centre for Toxicology, University of London
  
  

Day 3 - 28 January 2011

• Report Workshop 1 - Terminology(141 KB)
  
  
• Report Workshop 2 - Uncertainty(112 KB)
  
  
• Report Workshop 3 - Exposure(868 KB)
  
  
• Report Workshop 4 - Weight of Evidence(867 KB)
  
  
• Report Workshop 5 - Mixtures(329 KB)
  
  

• Final Panel Discussion (105 KB)